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"Lily, wake up," I heard someone coo into my ear. I opened my eyes to find James sitting on the bed beside me, "It's Christmas."
"Merry Christmas," I said while trying not to yawn, "What time is it?"
"Half past nine," James said, "I'll go and let you get up and get dressed," James said, giving me a kiss on the forehead and walking out.
Today was Christmas. We were all having dinner here at noon. My dad, Beth, Granny, and Great-Aunt Edna were all coming to eat at noon. Granny was my mum's mum and Great-Aunt Edna was my mum's aunt. I was also very worried about how James would like his gift.
I rolled slowly out of bed and pulled on my favorite pair of jeans and my green-knit pullover sweater. It took at least fifteen minutes to find my black heels. I eventually found them in my school trunk inside the cauldron. I then proceeded to brush my teeth and fix my hair. I ended up leaving my long, red hair down. It reached halfway down my back.
"Lily," Oliver said running in and tossing me over his shoulder, "You're holding up the unwrapping of presents!" He scolded as he ran downstairs and I fought with him to put me down.
An hour later Mum, Petunia, Oliver, Sirius, James, and I were in the kitchen enjoying chocolate chip pancakes and laughing. When I had gotten downstairs earlier, I had found presents from my mum, Petunia, Oliver, Sirius, and James. Granny, Great-Aunt Edna, Dad, and Beth were going to give me their presents when they came for dinner. I was going to exchange gifts with Remus, Eden, and Gwen at the Potter's New Year's Eve party. They had all sent owls to James throughout the week saying that they would be there.
I had gotten some clothes, perfume, and a couple of books from mum, hair product from Petunia, two mystery books from Oliver, and a mirror from Sirius which he insisted was smarter than I was, though I was yet to figure out what that meant.
I opened James' present to me at the same time as he opened my present to him. We both ripped off the wrapping paper to find identical copies of "The Life of an Auror."
"This is a bit bizarre," James had said, looking at his copy in shock.
"Thank you," I had said, looking at it in surprise, "And to think I was worried that you wouldn't like it."
"Thanks, well, at least now I won't have to borrow the copy I gave you," James had said with a nervous laugh.
Now we were all enjoying our brunch of chocolate chip pancakes.
"So when are you three leaving?" My mum asked between bites of food.
"Tomorrow," James answered.
"Are you really in that much of a hurry to get rid of us?" I asked my mum.
"No, of course not," She said half-heartedly, eyeing Sirius who currently had orange juice dripping down his chin.
"This is my boyfriend, James and one of our friends, Sirius," I said at half past eleven as I introduced James and Sirius to my Granny and Great-Aunt Edna.
"Well, aren't you handsome," Great-Aunt Edna told Sirius. Sirius grinned.
"I would have never guessed you were Lily's Great-Aunt—you look so young," Sirius said to Great-Aunt Edna sweetly.
I glanced nervously at James across the room to find my Granny was lecturing James about being sloppy. She apparently did not approve of messy hair.
"I guess you think that being a slob is the cool thing to do, don't you?" Granny rudely asked James.
"No ma'am, I don't know what you're talking about," James said, looking flustered.
"You know, it wouldn't kill you to run a comb through your hair," Granny scolded.
"I did. Twice," James said, trying to be polite, "Ma'am."
"How would you like to get me some water?" Great-Aunt Edna asked Sirius.
"Yes Ma'am," Sirius said, walking out the room."
"Why can't you be more like him?" Granny asked James of Sirius, "He looks neat and he's polite and helpful."
James looked stricken.
"Pass the potatoes, Beth," Mum said bitterly at dinner a half hour later.
It did not take a genius to notice that my mum was not very happy to have her ex husband and his new wife over for dinner. She was in a foul mood. Sirius was sitting on the side of Great-Aunt Edna, still sucking up. James was still trying to get my Granny to like him. This must be the way with older women James had referred to a couple of weeks ago. Beth passed the potatoes to my mum.
"So, Lily, how's school?" Granny asked me. She thought I attended a school for the gifted.
"Good," I said.
"Great," James answered her.
"I was talking to Lily," Granny said coldly leaving James looking flustered, "So the three of you go to school together?"
"Yes ma'am," I answered.
"I thought your mother told me it was a school for the gifted?" Granny asked.
"It is," I answered, trying to skirt around the issue. She left it at that, though I think I heard her mutter something about idiots while glancing at James.
"So, John, what do your parents do?" Granny asked turning to James.
James looked flustered. He had no idea what to answer.
"Um, they-they, um," James stuttered.
Fortunately, at that exact moment, Sirius told Great-Aunt Edna a particularly funny joke which caused her to laugh so hard that her dentures fell out. Sirius scooped them up off the table and handed them to her.
"Well, aren't you a sweetie," She said, plopping them back into her mouth.
I had to wonder, though, what exactly did James' parents do.
Later in the afternoon—after we had cleaned up—we were all sitting in the living room drinking coffee and talking. James and I were on the couch, Oliver was sitting on the floor talking to James and I, Dad and Beth were outside, Petunia was talking to mum and Granny on the other couch, and Sirius and Great-Aunt Edna were sitting in the two recliners, which happened to be side by side.
"So this is coffee?" James asked me.
"Yeah, ain't it great?" I asked teasingly.
"Interesting, I think I just burnt my tongue though," James said, sticking his tongue out.
"You, boy, put your tongue back in your mouth. I swear kids these days," Granny said from across the room.
"She really hates me, doesn't she?" James asked quietly, looking upset. He apparently was not used to having people hate him. Apparently, everyone loved him.
"Yeah, mate, I think she just might hate you," Oliver told him.
"No, she doesn't hate you," I said, half-heartedly.
"Good one, Lily," James said sarcastically.
"Sirius is such a pretty name," I heard Great-Aunt Edna say from across the room, "Is there a special lady in your life?"
"Sirius!" James said, "Join me in the hall for a second."
James, Sirius, and I trooped into the kitchen.
"Sirius! According to rule number—" James broke off, pulling the infamous piece of parchment out of his pocket and unrolling it, "73, you're not allowed to flirt with Lily's mum, sister, soon-to-be step mum, and grandmother!"
"Firstly, loser. Secondly, it says nothing about Great-Aunt Edna," Sirius pointed out.
"It's implied!" James said, annoyed.
"I can't help it if women are drawn to my animal magnetism!" Sirius said, walking out of the room. Great-Aunt Edna apparently needed help getting her cane.
"James, I thought the list would take care of it!" I said, annoyed.
"Well, supposedly, he can't help that women are drawn to him," James said sarcastically as we walked back into the living room.
We found Great-Aunt Edna telling Sirius about the "Good old days."
"I would thing you would show a bit more respect to your girlfriend, John," Granny said to James from her seat on the couch.
James took a very deep breath.
"I would think that you would have realized that my name is James," James told her sweetly.
"Don't you take that tone with me!" Granny said, sternly, "You should be more like your friend here, at least he knows how to treat a lady."
Apparently, telling James to be more like Sirius because Sirius "knows how to treat a lady" when Sirius was currently across the room flirting with Great-Aunt Edna when Sirius had a girlfriend was a bit too much for James to handle.
"Well, I guess I have no clue how to treat a lady, ma'am," James said sarcastically as he flopped down onto the couch and ruffled his hair, "Hey Sirius," James started turning to Sirius, "How do you think Gwen would feel if she knew you were so buddy buddy with Lily's great-aunt?"
"Gwen?" Sirius asked turning a pale shade of white.
"Yeah, you know, you're girlfriend," James said.
"She-I-She-I'm not doing anything wrong," Sirius argued.
"Girlfriend?" Great-Aunt Edna asked.
"I-I-Gwen wouldn't care," Sirius said.
"Well, mate, due to the fact that you've been swinging her and her best friend around for about the past four months, she's not very trusting of you right now," James said calmly.
"You've been toying with the emotions your girlfriend?" Great-Aunt Edna asked.
"I-I can explain!" Sirius argued.
"Well, I'm sure you've done much worse to my grand-daughter, haven't you?" Granny asked James.
"No, he's been the poster boyfriend," I told her.
Granny looked quite perturbed that she had been wrong about James and Sirius.
"Great-Aunt Edna! Let me explain!" Sirius said.
"Sirius Black, you're not the person I thought you were," Great-Aunt Edna said turning to Petunia and starting a conversation.
"James," Sirius said threateningly as he walked up.
James looked at him, looked at the door, and took off running towards the door. Sirius took off running after him.
"Sirius, can you make it to our one year anniversary party?" My dad asked Sirius that night as everyone stood in the doorway saying goodbye, "We loved your speech last night. We were hoping you could do a repeat performance."
"I'll have my people call your people," Sirius told him.
"James, I-well-I guess you're a good guy," Granny told him, giving him a hug.
James looked as though he were back on cloud nine, now that everyone knew he was a good guy and Sirius was a not good guy.
"Thanks," James said returning the hug.
"Great-Aunt Edna, can we talk?" Sirius asked.
"We have nothing to talk about," Great-Aunt Edna snapped.
After hugs and kisses all of our guests left. Mum and Petunia went to bed and it was just Oliver, Sirius, James, and I awake. We were sitting in the den talking.
"Oliver," James said all of a sudden, "Would you like to come to my family's New Year's Eve party?"
"Wouldn't I be the only, well, you know?" Oliver said, looking reluctant to accept the invitation.
"Yeah, but it'll still be fun," James told him.
"Yeah, Oliver, please come. You can meet the rest of my friends. Please, please, please." I begged.
"Yeah, we'll have another day to annoy Lily," Sirius added.
"Ok, I guess I could go," Oliver accepted.
"Good, you can come New Year's Eve afternoon," James told him.
"I think I'm going to bed," I said, standing up.
"I think I'll come tell you goodnight," James said with a smile.
"So how was your day?" James asked a few minutes later.
He was sitting on the foot of my bed and I was in bed.
"Good, that was a kind of mean thing of you to do to Sirius." I said.
"Well, he broke the no flirting agreement. I just had to," James said with a smile.
"Yeah, plus you couldn't handle someone not liking you for once," I teased.
"You can read me like a book," James said bending over and kissing me, "Goodnight. Love you," He said pulling away from me.
"Love you."
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